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So while we were all brought the Word of God quite sufficiently at Vic's service, none of us was able to leave the church *literally* with Christ.

Most went to the service with Jesus Christ and most left with Jesus Christ, literally...

And if you don't leave your Catholic Church within 20 minutes of eating Jesus, you don't leave with Christ either...

Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mar 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Mar 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; (nor save him)
Mar 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

And if you don't leave your Catholic Church within 20 minutes of eating Jesus, you don't leave with Christ either...
Well, I see that Cronos has resurrected a 3-month old thread!:) But I'm interested to know where you get the 20-minute rule. Does this apply to the Word of the Lord as well? And, to me, the proof that Jesus resides in the Eucharist comes from the obvious results of the frequent reception of the Eucharist (and other Sacraments!) by Christ's living saints who tirelessly worked for their Jesus while on earth.

And why wouldn't the reception of Jesus (the literal Christ) make a person stronger in their faith (beyond the 20-minute mark)? Jesus is either a-miracle-gone-bad after 33 years or Our Lord and Savior. How can He be in between? He's either there for us (quite literally, powerful! powerful!) on a daily basis (through His Living Bread), or He took off (leaving us unnourished) soon after the Resurrection.

Faith, I repeat is the condition for Christ performing miracles. Is it any wonder that our faith in the Real Presence, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, should be rewarded by miraculous phenomena. But, what an important adversative, but, you must believe! --Fr. John A. Hardon, "Christ the Miracle Worker in the Eucharist"

I watched an old movie (winner of 4 Academy Awards, 1943) this Christmas season called The Song of Bernadette, about one of the aforementioned saints, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl, who saw a vision of a "beautiful lady," a lady who states later in another apparition, "I am the Immaculate Conception" in Lourdes, France, a great movie for those who are interested in learning about one of the saints that Jesus gave to us ...

And here's a link to another: St. Gemma Galgani.

Recite the Rosary for Peace.

And if you don't leave your Catholic Church within 20 minutes of eating Jesus, you don't leave with Christ either...
Well, I see that Cronos has resurrected a 3-month old thread!:) But I'm interested to know where you get the 20-minute rule. Does this apply to the Word of the Lord as well? And, to me, the proof that Jesus resides in the Eucharist comes from the obvious results of the frequent reception of the Eucharist (and other Sacraments!) by Christ's living saints who tirelessly worked for their Jesus while on earth.

And why wouldn't the reception of Jesus (the literal Christ) make a person stronger in their faith (beyond the 20-minute mark)? Jesus is either a-miracle-gone-bad after 33 years or Our Lord and Savior. How can He be in between? He's either there for us (quite literally, powerful! powerful!) on a daily basis (through His Living Bread), or He took off (leaving us unnourished) soon after the Resurrection.

Faith, I repeat is the condition for Christ performing miracles. Is it any wonder that our faith in the Real Presence, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, should be rewarded by miraculous phenomena. But, what an important adversative, but, you must believe! --Fr. John A. Hardon, "Christ the Miracle Worker in the Eucharist"

I watched an old movie (winner of 4 Academy Awards, 1943) this Christmas season called The Song of Bernadette, about one of the aforementioned saints, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl, who saw a vision of a "beautiful lady," a lady who states later in another apparition, "I am the Immaculate Conception" in Lourdes, France, a great movie for those who are interested in learning about one of the saints that Jesus gave to us ...

And here's a link to another: St. Gemma Galgani.

Recite the Rosary for Peace.